Boundary homogenization for a triharmonic intermediate problem

We consider the triharmonic operator subject to homogeneous boundary conditions of intermediate type on a bounded domain of the N‐dimensional Euclidean space. We study its spectral behaviour when the boundary of the domain undergoes a perturbation of oscillatory type. We identify the appropriate limit problems that depend on whether the strength of the oscillation is above or below a critical threshold. We analyse in detail the critical case that provides a typical homogenization problem leading to a strange boundary term in the limit problem. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.